Schedule at a Glance

Convention Continuing Education Programs – Schedule-at-a-Glance
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All "Preserving the Past for the Future" Continuing Education Programs
will be held at Disney's Paradise Pier^® Hotel

FRIDAY
Friday, 10/22	105-108 - 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - Student Forum 105-109 - 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. - Educator's Program
Friday, 10/22 Morning Courses 8:30 - 11:30 a.m.	105-100 (3.0 CE/Contact Hours) BNP, Heart Failure, and Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS); Utility of D-dimer in the Emergency Department Howard J. Kirchick, PhD Sponsored by Alere San Diego, Inc. 105-101 (3.0 CE/Contact Hours) Part 1: Thrombopoietin: The Principal Humoral Regulator of Platelet Production Part 2: Aspirin Resistance (Note: you must attend both parts to receive credit; no partial credit awarded ) Mervyn A. Sahud, MD, FACP Sponsored by Quest Diagnostics, Nichols Institute 105-102 (3.0 CE/Contact Hours) California Hot Topics: Emerging Field of Genetic Risk Analysis: Regulatory Impact at State and Federal Level; Personnel Licensing Requirements: Updates on CLS and MLT Programs Laboratory Field Services Personnel: Beatrice R. O'Keefe, MBA; Zahwa Amad, PhD; and Nema F. Lintag, CLS
Friday, 10/22 Afternoon Courses 1:30 - 4:30 p.m.	105-200 (3.0 CE/Contact Hours) Thrombelastograph^® (TEG^®): Hemostasis in the New Millennium Timothy S. Bhagwat, MBA, VP Sponsored by Applied Critical Care Sciences, Inc. (ACCS) 105-201 (3.0 CE/Contact Hours) Part 1: Tissue Banking 2010 and Beyond; Part 2: Cytology and CLIA Updates for 2010; and Part 3: Blood Banking for 2010 (Note: you must attend entire presentation to receive credit; no partial credit awarded ) Laboratory Field Services Personnel: Janet Otey; Donald Miyamoto; and Robert Hunter 105-202 (3.0 CE/Contact Hours) Part 1: Beyond the Routine CBC - The Empowered Laboratory Part 2: Automated Body Fluids in Hematology (Note: you must attend both parts to receive credit; no partial credit awarded) Bob Downey, MT(ASCP) Sponsored by Sysmex America, Inc.
SATURDAY
Saturday, 10/23 Morning Courses 8:30 - 11:30 a.m.	105-300 (3.0 CE/Contact Hours) Tumor Markers: Past, Present, and Future KC Joy, BS Sponsored by Beckman Coulter 105-301 (3.0 CE/Contact Hours) Part 1: Biomarkers in the Early Detection of Sepsis Part 2: Epidemiology of Breast Cancer and the Use of Biomarkers in Diagnosis and Treatment (Note: you must attend both parts to receive credit; no partial credit awarded) Nancy J. Haley, PhD Sponsored by Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Inc. 105-302 (3.0 CE/Contact Hours) Part 1: Past, Present, and Future of Prenatal Cytogenetic Diagnostics Part 2: Genomic Microarray into Clinical Practice (Note: you must attend both parts to receive credit; no partial credit awarded) Arturo Anguiano, MD Sponsored by Quest Diagnostics, Nichols Institute 105-303 (3.0 CE/Contact Hours) Hematology M&Ms: The Maturation, Morphology, and Mystery of Erythrocytes Karen A. Brown, MS Sponsored by ARUP Laboratories, Inc.
Saturday, 10/23 Afternoon Courses 1:30 - 4:30 p.m.	105-400 (3.0 CE/Contact Hours) Diagnostic Parasitology: A Practical Approach for Clinical Relevance Lynne S. Garcia, MS, MT, FAAM Sponsored by Medical-Chemical Corportation 105-401 (3.0 CE/Contact Hours) An Update on HIV and AIDS 2010 Elizabeth Crabb Breen, PhD 105-402 (3.0 CE/Contact Hours) Phlebotomy Ps & Qs Karen A. Brown, MS Sponsored by ARUP Laboratories, Inc. 105-403 (3.0 CE/Contact Hours) Update on the Pathogenesis and Diagnosis of Group A Streptococcal Infections Christine A. Kirvan, PhD
SUNDAY
Sunday, 10/24 Morning Courses 8:30 - 11:30 a.m.	105-500 (3.0 CE/Contact Hours) Diagnostic Parasitology: Potential Problems in the Diagnosis of Blood Parasites Lynne S. Garcia, MS, MT, FAAM Sponsored by Medical-Chemical Corporation 105-501 (3.0 CE/Contact Hours) Laboratory Medicine in the American Civil War Michael W. French, BS, MPH, CLS Leslie K. Revier, BS, MBA, CLS Sponsored by San Diego Chapter, CAMLT 105-502 (3.0 CE/Contact Hours) The Laboratory in the Diagnosis of Autoimmune Arthritis Stanley Naides, MD Sponsored by Quest Diagnostics, Nichols Institute

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